On 2008-06-17 22:07 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Count source packages. That gets away from distro specific > slicing and dicing of packages, and better represents the effort taken > to package software.
True. > I still think that Debian is ahead by source package count, but > I do not have concrete data, off hand. A quick web search shows that Debian sid and Gentoo are roughly at par with 12000+ source packages¹ each. Both are outnumbered by FreeBSD ports, though; they have more than 18000 packages available². Sven ¹ http://packages.gentoo.org/categories ² http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
